The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-29
FRESH FOOTLIGHT FLASHES.
Where Our Popular Actors Come From

Actors and managers are not al
ways familiar with the theaters from
childhood, though some of them be-
gan their career as infant phenomena
and as stage babies.
Harry Dixey was dry goods clerk
in Boston before he danced into ce-
lebrity as the hind legs of heifer.
John Mccullough was foundry
man.
Osmond Tearle was formerly drug
clerk, and can put up prescription
now.
Harry Miner was New York drug
gist.
Lawrence Barrett was once a wait
er IN a restaurant. He also served in
the army.
Augustin DAILY was a newspaper re-
porter, and as such il is said his
wages never rose above SIS q week.
When he was made dramatic editor
of the ETpreSS he received $50.
Italo Campanini, the tenor, was
blacksmith, and received the scar on
his cheek while serving under ,iar-
ibaldi.
Tony Pastor, Ben Maginley and
George r. Edeson were circus clowns.
Nate Salisbury was an artilleryman,
cowboy, a restaurant waiter and a
house painter.
Barney Wilson was a peddler, and
used to hunt for jobs in the NewYork
markets.
J. B. Studley acquired his big voice
by yelling at the mules from the deck
of canal-boat.
BILLY" Florence used TO peddle
papers and eat peanuts in the gallery.
Harry Montague supported moth
er and sister out of his slender wages
as clerk in a real estate Office.
Maurice Barrymore was a lawyer
in London.
Arthur Bell was in the wholesale
tea trade and afterward became an
architect.
Julian Magnus, John Gilbert, the
singer, and Signor Brocolini John
Clark were reporters on New York
and Brooklyn papers.
Frank Bangs took to the stage be-
cause he could not make money at
the law.
Eben Plympton was machinist.
Harry Lee was a butcher IN his
fathers shop.
John A. Stevens has been a painter,
glazler. photographer and private in
the army.
John Howson was an Australian
fiddler.
Daniel Frohman was a Tribune er-
rand boy.
Otis Skinner nailed up boxes in a
dry goods house and edited a small
paper in Hartford.
Eugene o. Jepson wrote wrappers
for the Hartford Post
Joseph Wheelock was a sailor.
Ada Rehan was a teacher In Con
necticut.
Mile. Albani was choir singer in
Albany.
Emma Abbott was a New York
choir singer.
Emma Thursby was a Brooklyn
choir singer.
George G. Min was q Brooklyn
clergyman.
John l.. Burleigh was an army Of
ficer.
James O'Nell and J. w. Hague
were educated for the priesthood.
Anna Dickinson was an essayist and
lecturer.
Adam Forepaugh was butcher.
Cyril Searle was job printer in
England and a Herald cOmpOsitor in
New York.
J. G. Arnott was private in the
British army.
George Morton was a Union drum,
mer and went on the stage at the
close of the war.
Harry Crisp was Confederate pri
vate.
Lawrence Barrett carried rifle in
Massachusetts regiment during the
war.
Moses w. Fiske was a composition
William Gilbert was q drug store
clerk.
Stuart Robson was a printer
John Malone vas a lawyer.
Myron Leffingwell, ST., was &
printer.
Maude Granger was an employe in
the Weed sewing machine factory in
Hartford.
Marshal Mallory is q clergyman.
w. A. Sands was an editor in Titus
vile.
Frank Hartshorn is clerk of the
fremont house, Boston, when not on
the stage.
James Lewis was bookkeeper.
George Clark was printer.
George Osborne was miner.
Maurice Strakosch was q tenor in
Agram, at only Sc month.
Bernard Ullman was q piano teach.
er.
Henry Jarrett footed a horn in an
orchestra.
Theodore Thomas was q fiddler al
SO a week in the old Broadway thea
ter.
Harry Lacey laced shoes for his
customers in Detroit shoe shop.